Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crippled almost to obliteration," admitted one adviser. The new strategy also calls for a more forceful focus on the issues. There will be considerably less hand pumping at plant gates and in beer halls; instead Muskie will appear on TV interview and telephone talk shows, and limit his speeches to a few selected audiences...
...burst of boyish spirit, several of his Boy Scout troop had once thrown a fellow member. Toughly impartial, he recently fined his 17-year-old brother, Len, $24 for illegal possession of beer. He has spearheaded several long-needed reforms, such as jacking up the town speed limit from 10 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h. and scrapping the ordinance regulating bowling alleys (there is not now, nor has there ever been, a bowling alley in Ayrshire). He has even offered to perform a marriage-although he himself could not be married without his father's consent. Mayor Smith...
...steel used in a car goes up $ 10, an automaker can charge the customer an extra $10 plus the company's usual profit margin. The Price Commission could decide to restrict the increase to a flat $ 10. And it may tighten up or eliminate entirely the "term-limit" pricing rule under which a company can raise the cost of some items by as much as 8% so long as its average increase for all products stays within 1.8%. Polls show that the public is discouraged by the price-fighting progress of Phase II. Nixon is well...
...cost of thousands of lives and the further destruction of Vietnam. Nixon reasons that Americans won't protest the mechanized continuation of the war as long as only Vietnamese lives and the fate of the Vietnamese nation is at stake. Massive protest now can prove him wrong and limit his military options...
...cases. In the past, a single state board of education tried to run both the public schools and the six-unit university system; the new constitution creates separate boards and gives the regents full control-without political interference-over the universities. Montana also limped along with a tight constitutional limit on property taxes, which imposed great inequities in school-district financing; it was so restrictive that the state ranked last in the U.S. in the amount of aid it could give to local governments. Now the limit is removed, enabling the legislature to distribute the tax burden fairly...